Arizona weekly enterprise., 1887-11-19
WoMAN's FAvoRITE TIPPLE.

flow the Delicious Ice Cream Soda Has
 Superseded Pink Lemonade.
 Strawberry and vanilla mixed, please, and don't make it too sweet"
 There is the succulent sound of a syrupy pour, gentle fzz and gurgIing gush, delicate splash, as lump of ice cream finds its way from big metal scoop in the depths of the crystal glass, another agitato, appassionato, furioso, top off fizz, and the fair ''guzzler" of Gotham is served with her ice cream soda.
 Other people drink ice cream soda else where, but not as they drink it here in New York-which is by the hour, by the minute, by the gallon, by the liquid ton. From early morn till dewy eve the stream of femininity and the stream of coda pass, ceaselessly, behind the window shades of the confectioner's, where the delicacy is supposed to be served in it's fizziest and most fascinating form. At big desk, near the door, and beneath a dangling placard, which bears the follow ing instructive legend: Buy your soda water checks here, sits placid and cold young woman, warblinS a monotonous refrain. ''One or two?'' 'sPlain or cream?' and dealing forth small solferino waterproof tickets, which are eagerly bounced upon by the thirsting swarm and hurried away to the marble bar presided over by the rapid, elusive soda water clerk.
 These clerks are usually girls, and they manipulate the icecream soda with a | pleasing dexterity born ofslong and assid- uous cultivation. They fit noiselessly among the array of bottles, deftly distin- gushing Vichy from Apollinaris by the sense of feel, ' extract the juice from the slippery and deceptive lemon in the twinking of an eye, never confuse choc- | oiate with cranberry, nor insult the pal ate which craveth pineapple by the offer of sarsaparilla.
 They mix and scoop and stir and serve the pushing, scrambling. insistent mass before them silently, swiftly, neatly and with an air of toleration which gives a qualified pleasure to the recipient. The writer followed one of these nymphs of the soda water fount to quiet corner, whither she had repaired to quench her thirst with glass of clear cold water, and when asked why she did not take an lcecream soda she responded briefly with an amiahle "Ugh!" expressive of nausea, which supplied all conversational defi- ciencies. Later, moved to further confi- dence, she placed one round jersey-cIad elbow on the counter, unused up her bang with one plump hand and proceeded to discourse, glad of brief respite from the eternal mixing process.
 ''l don't see how they can drink it! But then they don't live in it as I do.''
 Been living in it long?" she was asked.
 "' Bout four years now, ; with giggle which ended in a groan.
 "Oh, yes, but you don't serve ice. cream soda all the year around, you hnow.'
 Don't We? We'll, I should relnarf that we did. Why, tho rush begins hert before the first of May and it keeps II, harder'n harder all through June, Jul, and August. In August the people teal in here and drink two Or three soda. right down, one after'n other They thir of through the fall till winter, and then though we do an irregular business or the lcecream, we sell the soda hot witt bouilion, coffee and chocolate. Seems ! if people have got to drink something il New York all the tine.'
 What Is the favorite extract?" asked the writer. Not that it matters a fiji, whether Gotham soda water fiends pre-
 fer ginger beer to the nectar of the gods
 but because of the hope of some amuse
 ing commentary from behind the bar
 ''Oh, my! 1 couldn't tell you that
 but, " with a confidential lowering of tn
 voice, you mightn't believe it, but d,
 you know I've got so 1 can tell 'em al
 apart-just what extracts they'll take, - mean, and l can set them up-excus
 me, you know what I mean-almce
 before they open their mouths 10, see, it's this way. The school girls al want strawberry and vanilla mixed. ant l the dark ones want coffee or chocolate and the blondes, they take pineapple O ? lemon, and the old ladies call for sa1 : s'p'rilla, cause its cooling to the blood and the girls who come in with fellow | want just vanilla, plain kind of inne cent and simple-and the young widow ) always ask for Vichy, with a touch ( r lemon That's where they're smar 3 They can drink Vichy standing II l straight and looking over the top of til s glass. They don't have to hang over g and snap for the ice cream, when S comes up, with one of these long spoon. g Then Viehy don't get up your nose an @ make it red, and make your eyes water |. You'll have to excuse me now-I'n gt s bounced for lettering. See this girl con
 ing in? She's a raspberry" And wit
 a cheerful grin this small, slangy, sod |. water philosopher skipped back to ht > position at the other end of the counte
 New York World.